Talk:The Infinite Quest

Other animations

 * The serial, animated by Firestep, is only the second, officially licensed, fully animated, Doctor Who serial, after the 2003 flash-animated, Scream of the Shalka.

What about Shada? And while it's not fully animated The Invasion should probably be mentioned. Also does anyone one have and references for the aborted Nelvana series? It might be worth mentioning here. --GracieLizzie 22:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding info on The Invasion, and I've found some references for the Nelvana series. But I still want to know about Shada and Real Time. Doesn't their existence make this the fourth full animated Who Story? Also does anyone know who made Shada and Real Time? I know Big Finish made the audio, but did they do the animation as well? --GracieLizzie 01:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think that the animation (such as it is) for Shada and Real Time was done in-house by the BBC website's Cult team. Lee Sullivan drew some pictures, and they animated them slightly, Jackanory-style.  It wasn't really a full animation, just zooms and pans into, out of, and across still images.  (The first Doctor Who semi-animation in this style was Death Comes to Time, which also had drawings by Lee Sullivan.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I see what you mean, by "fully animated" I though the article meant "without any live action". Yes the animation isn't very smooth :P it just has limited animation, enough to make that daft Romana vs. Madonna music vid :P. --GracieLizzie 01:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Duration?
The infobox currently says the episodes will be three and a half minutes each - do we have a confirming source on that? Radagast 22:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yup, DWM. Added it :) --GracieLizzie 23:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

For real?
Barney simpsons wrote the following summary for episode 1: ''The Doctor and Martha lands on a hand made war ship built by Baltazar. but when Baltazar threatens to destroy the universe the Doctor disagrees and destroys the ship. Thinking Baltazar was dead The Doctor and Martha leave but then Baltazar escapes on his robot bird and threatens to get the Doctor...'' Is this for real? Because, honestly, it sounds completely and utterly ridiculous, and (only) partly because it seems to have nothing to do with the quest mentioned in the Synopsis section... Since I live in the US and can't see it, can someone confirm this plot summary? --Jay (Histrion) (talk • contribs) 03:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Although the short episode was (in my opinion) very funny I can't really say it had must depth to it and the plot to be honest was weak, unfortunatly when reading instead of watching it, the jokes arn't going to get written down (and rightly so), so all you have to go on is the main story which is poor. The only thing I could really add to that would be maybe to add the fact it was a spoon that made ship 'disintegrate', and this will be mentioned. Other then that I will change some grammatical mistakes.--Wiggstar69 09:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

42nd century?
Do we have a source for the era/setting? I'm going to add it to Chronology of the Doctor Who universe for now anyway, but feel free to remove it. ~ZytheTalk to me! 17:31, 9 April 2007 (UTC).

Number of episodes
Anonymous from 62.73.169.152 without comment has changed the number of episodes from 13 to 12, both here and on Totally Doctor Who. In the absence of any indication otherwise, I have changed it back to 13 episodes, as is clearly stated on the BBC website (reference #2, "Who's a Toon?"). --24.137.81.76 04:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Only 12 episodes were shown in Totally. The 13th episode was only shown as part of the omnibus on Saturday 30th June 2007 on BBC2 (immediately after the 24th episode of Totally, which included Infinite Quest episode 12!). Interestingly, a full title sequence was used (absent from Totally) between episodes 1 and 2. It was the same one from series 3 episodes 1-10, except with a cartoon Tardis. Digifiend 09:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Firestep Question
Does anyone have a website address for FireStep at all? comment was added by Guru Larry (talk • contribs) 05:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC).

Table at bottom of page
There seems to be a problem with wikitables at the moment whereby images don't appear in them and it has pushed the table on this page to the bottom, whatever I do to try and stop it. It doesn't appear to be just this page. The problem is that it has orphaned the episode pictures meaning they are about to be deleted. Does anyone know why this is happening and whether it's going to be fixed soon? Clockwork Apricot 10:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks to whoever reconfigured the table to make it look neater, but it would be nice to get the pictures back in. Clockwork Apricot 15:19, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

Placement
Does anyone know where in Martha's personal timeline this episode occurs? (anon)

Martha wears her original outfit, and Jack is absent, so it must be at some point before or immediately after Daleks in Manhattan. Digifiend 09:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Captain Kaliko - possible outisde reference?
Is the female pirate Captain Kaliko a reference to Captain Calico Jack Rackham, the employer (and possible lover) of female pirates like Anne Bonny and Mary Read? 212.139.80.232 19:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Canonicity note
I don't really feel the standard boilerplate for DW Spinoffs regarding canon is appropriate here. This is a television production, made by the BBC as part of an officially sanctioned supporting program. That should indicate that it's canon; that and the presumption the serial didn't contain any glaring contradictions of the live-action show. However it doesn't share the same producers, which might be a point of issue. For this special case I removed the boilerplate and wrote a specialized disclaimer. 23skidoo 16:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've adjusted the note somewhat. This can't really be compared honestly with audios, novels, and the like, seeing as it was commissioned by the BBC and broadcast by the BBC and featured the same main cast. The only thing that sets it apart from the main series is it was animated. And to date the BBC hasn't made an anti-animation announcement the way Paramount decanonized the animated Star Trek. 23skidoo (talk) 22:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * As a further adjustment, it's incorrect to refer to this as a "spin-off" as that term is used to refer to non-televised material such as books and audios and webcasts, as well as the "writer-authorized" spinoffs that don't feature the Doctor. While the canon status is unclear and should be noted, the fact this was produced for the BBC and aired on television by the BBC places it into a different category altogether. 68.146.41.232 (talk) 22:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. This is not a 'spinoff' by any possible definition of the term.  The wording needs to be changed. 72.177.34.13 (talk) 02:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Citation requirement removal.
I'm going to remove the citation requirement for the footnote about the title sequence having an animated TARDIS. The intro can been seen here. http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=zkfScAto1Hc E-flah (talk) 20:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Kills all known bugs, dead
"In episode 6, Pilot Kelvin describes the final weapon to be deployed on Myarr using the phrase "kills all known bugs, dead." This is similar to the UK advertising slogan for the bleach Domestos."

Although demestos do use a similar tag this line is actually copying the raid bug spray line. 219.88.192.98 (talk) 16:41, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

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